§ The result
1 point separates Crosschq and Brainner.
Under rubric v1.0, Crosschq and Brainner finish 1 point apart, 47 to 46, as two Screening entries. Brainner and Crosschq each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Crosschq holds (headed by Human Oversight Design) adds up to more weighted points. One criterion, Human Oversight Design, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 50, Crosschq 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 57% of the weighted advantage Crosschq holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
Vendor profile
Crosschq
Crosschq is a hiring-intelligence platform that combines automated 360 reference checks, an AI Interview Agent that conducts and scores voice/video screening interviews, AI resume matching and ranking, candidate-fraud and identity checks, Traitify personality and cognitive assessments, and quality-of-hire analytics.
§ The record
Brainner and Crosschq are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Crosschq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Crosschq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Crosschq 62
1.4 weighted points to Crosschq
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Crosschq 58
0.8 weighted points to Crosschq
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Crosschq 38
0.7 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Crosschq 40
0.6 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Crosschq 50
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Crosschq 62
0.3 weighted points to Crosschq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Crosschq.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Crosschq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 47 (F) | -1 | -0.8 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Brainner | Crosschq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 38 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Crosschq has 43 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Crosschq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 80 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 43 for Crosschq, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Crosschq last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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